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Pedro Costa at The Tokyo Film Exposition
A question and answer, December 2, 2012.On Historic Centre (2012, Aki Kaurismaki; Pedro Costa; Víctor Erice; Manoel de Oliveira) —A film made by invite only. There was a 5th director, there is a 5th...
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Photography was once our great conveyor of the insufficient. There's basic information, proudly unusable. What you thought was there was not there, and you too become unusable. A double impenetrable....
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Patience-mobile
"If you arrive in a village at sunset, go no farther, stop there; if you arrive at the edge of a river in spate, wait until the water goes down before crossing; if you get angry at night, wait until...
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"We are like two chasms — a well staring up at the sky."— Pessoastill: Cordão Verde (Hiroatsu Suzuki and Rossana Torres, 2009)
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22 jan '41we see the film of STEINBECK'S GRAPES OF WRATH. you can still see that it must be a great book, and the entrepreneurs probably did not want to 'take all the strength out of it'. so they stew...
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The Miracle of Empty Hands
Sur la terre vide resteront ces mains sur la paroi de granit face au fracas de l’océanOn the empty earthremain these handson the granite wallfacing the ocean's roarLes Mains négatives (1979, Duras),and...
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Look at this mountain, it was once fire.
No match. (For those two who couldn't make it to Smorgasbord [1983] by Jerry Lewis last night, in Los Angeles, with a scrounging crowd of similar losers....)....
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Jean-Claude Biette on SICILIA! (1999)
Sicilia! is a film that shines both in its own inherent vision and as a highlight in the work of the Straubs, a height we can reach without extra tools. If, according to the generous idea of Manoel de...
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One of my best memories on the relationship of cinema and politics was at (Adriano) Aprà's cine-club, called "Filmstudio", where Straub's The Bridegroom, the Comedienne and the Pimp (1968) was...
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Tati Speaks
There are very few interviews with Jacques Tati in English or English translation, but one exceptional interview appears in - and mostly comprises - the short, forgotten, and lovely book Jacques Tati...
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MAY DAY
Sun Trust, the bank, forecloses on a supermarket. Policemen in Augusta, Georgia, guard food as it is thrown into the trash.Exhausted, exhausted, L'age d'orYou are horrified at our intending to do away...
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1977, Toute révolution est un coup de dés Every Revolution is a Throw of the Dice
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Echoes of Silence
At twenty-three years of age, one night in the Fall of 1965, (Jean-Claude Biette) disappears to escape military service, ordering André Téchiné to tell no one. His parents panic, his father visits the...
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